>I'd like to do more public outreach but the knowledge gap seems insurmountable You're not giving people enough credit. You can explain DNA from a functional s

>I'd like to do more public outreach but the knowledge gap seems insurmountable You're not giving people enough credit. You can explain DNA from a functional standpoint to children. The problem is bandwidth - there are many things a given person will possibly might want to know that have big consequences. However, it's not clear that everyone should know how GMO's work compared with, say, nuclear energy, encryption, general food production techniques, banking, medicine, global politics, and whatever they need to do for their current occupation. Clearly a substantial number should, but everyone? Like, imagine someone from the intelligence community saying they'd like there to be a public discussion about terrorism, but they're skeptical it could ever happen because 80% of Americans don't know where Boko Haram is located. The answer isn't to throw your hands up and say that the knowledge gap is insurmountable, it's to provide the opportunity for dialogue so that enough people can engage the issue.